Postgraduate Course: English Historical Syntax (LASC11057)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Language Sciences |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course explores syntactic change in the history of English. In addition, it provides an opportunity to gain some practical experience of collecting and analysing data on historical syntax, as well as giving some training in the use electronic text corpora and the software needed to extract data from these corpora. (The practical work will be confined to early and late Modern English.)
Tuesdays: G05 Appleton Tower
Thursdays: 3.10 Dugald Stewart Building |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 09:00 - 10:50 | | | | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 09:00 - 09:50 | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 09:00 - 10:50, Zone: Central. G05 Appleton Tower |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of some important syntactic changes in the history of English, as well as of different accounts of these changes;
- relate these changes to models for the description of syntax and/or syntactic change, as appropriate;
- collect and analyse syntactic data from the Modern English period;
- extract data from electronic text corpora. |
Assessment Information
| Students will be assessed by means of one extended piece of written work of c. 4,000 words. |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Linda Van Bergen
Tel: (0131 6)51 1998
Email: l.vanbergen@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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